Cook, Max M. 1872-1935
COOK, BRACKIN, ERHARDT, KUEHL, BACHMAN
Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 7/3/2011 at 21:13:02
Max M. Cook, son of Henry and Mary Cook, was born on the old Cook homestead in Clayton county, on Aug. 14, 1872, and died on April 22, 1935, in a hospital in Flandreau, S.D., aged sixty-two years, eight months and eight days.
On Sunday, April 14, shortly after his noon day meal, he was stricken suddenly with a paralytic stroke from which he never rallied.
Mr. Cook spent most of his life in Iowa, although for a time he lived in Wisconsin and South Dakota. In the winter of 1928 he went to Flandreau to help care for his aged brother and sister and the remainingyears of his life were spent there. Of the ten brothers and sisters of the Cook family living in 1923, Mary L., of Flandreau, S.D., is the only one surviving.
Mr. Cook had a very friendly disposition and had many friends both in this community and at Flandreau.
Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon, April 26, by the Methodist minister of Flandreau and he was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery in that city beside his brother, George.
Relatives from Iowa attending the funeral were, Mrs. A.J. Cook and son Alfred of Elkader, Mrs. B.H. Brackin of Elgin, Mrs. Wm. Erhardt and Elmer Cook of Elkader, and George Kuehl of Strawberry Point.
~Elgin Echo, May 2, 1935
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Added by Reid R. Johnson 11/12/2017:
A obituary in the Clayton County Register, Thur., 9 May 1935 adds his mother's maiden name as Bachman.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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